Seminar: The Science behind Global Warming: Separating Fact from Fiction

This seminar will present the fundamental science behind the greenhouse effect and global warming. Specifically, it will aim to answer the following questions: (1) why is CO2 considered so hazardous for global warming? (2) Why is H2O, which is also termed a greenhouse gas by environmental scientists, considered benign by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? (3) Why is the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere such a concern from a global warming perspective?

About the Speaker

Professor Sandip Mazumder graduated with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1997. After graduation, he joined CFD Research Corporation, where he was one of the architects and early developers of the commercial computational fluid dynamics code CFD-ACE+. In 2004, he joined the Ohio State University, where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, numerical methods, and computational fluid dynamics. He is the author of a graduate-level textbook on numerical solution of partial differential equations and over fifty journal papers, which have been cited more than two thousand times. Dr. Mazumder is the recipient of several research and teaching awards, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.